Two months before elections for the European Parliament, a new website has been launched to allow voters to find out how MEPs and political parties voted on environmental issues over the last five years. Friends of the Earth Europe, in collaboration with Greenpeace, the European Environmental Bureau, the European Federation for Transport and Environment, and …
Europe faces up to the resource challenge
Brussels, January 26 – The scale of the challenge posed by Europe’s unsustainable use of the world’s natural resources has been acknowledged today by the European Commission. Lawmakers in Brussels published an initiative outlining how Europe plans to tackle its resource use which affects global resource prices, natural ecosystems and people – particularly the poor …
European Union urged to stop pumping public money into fossil fuels
Brussels, 5 May, 2009 – Billions of Euros of taxpayers’ money is being pumped into the fossil fuel industry, shows new research released today by Friends of the Earth Europe which is calling for all public subsidies to oil and gas companies to be stopped. Six billion Euros of public money has been given to …
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European Parliament votes for organics
Brussels, 29 March, 2007 – Environmental NGOs have welcomed today’s rejection by the European Parliament of a proposal to allow traces of genetically modified organisms in organic food [1,2]. The result of the vote, say Friends of the Earth Europe, Greenpeace, and the European Environmental Bureau, is a clear indication from European elected representatives that …
EU needs waste prevention and recycling targets to help the climate
Brussels, February 14 – A new study, released today [1], shows that the proposed binding minimum EU recycling targets of 50 per cent for municipal waste [2] by 2020, currently discussed by the European Parliament, could save emissions equivalent to more than 89 million tonnes (mt) of CO2 equivalent per year. This is equivalent to …
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Keep GMOs out of organic food!
Brussels, 26 March, 2007 – Environment groups are this week appealing to the European Parliament to protect organic farming from contamination by genetically modified crops. MEPs will vote this Thursday on whether a new EU law should allow GMOs in organic food [1,2]. According to Mauro Albrizio, Vice President of the European Environmental Bureau: “Organic …
